The Wheel of Time (Boxed Set #1)

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Summary: Greatest writer of them all !
Review: Robert Jordan has made every other book I have read seem dull in comparison to his work. He actually makes you believe your there in Rand's world. I even think he even beats Tolkien at his own game. So to sum these books up in one word "MARVELOUS". I can't wait for the eighth book to arrive on the shelves

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Summary: This is the best literary masterpiece next to the Bible
Review: Bar the Bible, (the ultimate truth) this series is the most intense reading experience I have had. I read loads - most is a load - this is great, the best fiction work I have had the pleasure to lay my hands upon

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Summary: Robert Jordan is the best fantasy-author alive today
Review: Robert Jordan has formed a world of his own with charakters more alive than any other living author (and i really have read many). His success is so big that more or less fanatic Tolkien- fans takes every chans they can too speak about how he has stolen some of the charakters from Tolkien. That is really funny though, Tolkien has stolen his charakters more or less direktly from the bible. You can read Silmarillion with a bible beside and find that he has mostly just changed the names. However, all fantasy-writers of any quality have some kind of bible referenses. Robert Jordan has created something that goes above other fantasywriters with a world complicatedand complex. The plot never ceases too amaze and surprise. Many hours of stimulating and exiting reading

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Summary: One of a kind!!!
Review: I've never read anything like "The Wheel of Time"! It's difficult to find a more complicated setting and manage to carry the reader away like Robert Jordan does. Because theese books are nothing like any other fantasy books I'v ever read. The trick Jordan uses is to let you inside each characters mind, and you learn how they react and think. This creates a bond between you and the characters you can find nowhere else, and thats why I love Jordan. So stop comparing Tolkien and Jordan. Their books are not the least alike, but both are great writers! But you must read it to understand..

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Summary: Lose Yourself in These Books!
Review: I love sci-fi and fantasy, but I rarely read serials, simply because I find them disappointing; the sequels never seem to be as good as the first novel. But these books are different and wonderful. I read the series over and over again while waiting for the next installment and find something new every time. Many writers have tried to duplicate Jordan's amazing work over the years, but no one can come close to his incredible imagination and the realistic scope of this series. I have never spent time in a more real alternate universe. I agree with another reviewer here, Jordan is the master of fantasy. I have read Tolkien, I have read Herbert, and I have loved them both. But Jordan brings so many fresh, new(and it is nearly impossible to find anything new in today's fantasy), believeable, and astounding facets to the genre that it is hard to compare him to any other. I highly recommend this series to anyone

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Summary: Jordan <An interesting Tolkien Rip off>
Review: The Paralels between Tolkiens work and what Jordan is doing is astounding. As I was reading the books I wrote down parts that were similar. Edumnd's field is the shire. Gandalf is a woman Morainne. Sauraman is Lindrin. Lan is Aragorn. It is nice that he has strong female characters. Oh I liked Ingtar/Boromir as well. This is the best rip off I have seen since I read Terry Brooks. To Place this somewhat long winded series against Tolkien is a mockery. I find that so much of the wheel of time is overdone, character development is very slim, they stubbornly stay the same. Facing an evil God don't seem to phase Rand at all I think it would be more difficult do deny the truth if you fought satan on a nightly basis. Reaching Tar Valon was like following the road to Elrond's house. With the evil <trolocs>/orcs and Myrdrall/Nazgul. The ways were somewhat like the dwarven halls of Myth Dranor. Ogier are intriuging cross between ents and dwarves. I think Jordan needs an editor who is not afraid to cut out some of the more stationary parts of the book. However I will continue to read it cause frankly it is one of the best works out there.

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Summary: The Best Rip-Off of Dune I've ever seen!
Review: I'd just like to start off by saying that Robert Jordan is building, to my knowledge, the greatest fantasy epic of all time. What started as a basic trilogy continues to unravel the innumerable intracacies of a complex world. You can sense the history of the place. Like the characters of the books, readers are explorers immersed in the depths of intrigue, adventure, and world shaking magical power. After years of reading science fiction and fantasy novels, there are no stories that are quite as engrossing as the Wheel of Time. . . except perhaps for Frank Herbert's Dune. Which shouldn't come as a surprise, I guess, considering the remarkable number of similarities between the central ideas of these books. Let's see, a prophesied hero takes command of elite warriors to wrest power from the corrupt aristocracy. These warriors have advanced to super-human skill by their harsh desert lives. The hero is paralleled by an order of female mystics who serve as guides to humankind. Their "only goal is to serve." The hero in this case aspires to the power held only by this order of women, a supremely dangerous act. The order has been watching for this hero, so that they might control his power. Sound familiar? It does if you've read either Dune or The Wheel of Time. Now, I'm not saying that Mr. Jordan had Dune in mind when he created the Wheel of Time, but the similarities are certainly suspicious. All the same, I'll continue to read ever one of the Wheel of Time books as soon as they come out. Let's just hope he doesn't follow Frank Herbert's lead and die before the series can be concluded.

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Summary: A Bridge between two worlds...
Review: There is nothing to say about this series, that Robert Jordan has created, that has not already been said so many times over. I will only be the millionth person to summarize it in the one word that fits, that word is so perfect, it isn't even in this language. The problem lies in the fact that the reader will view the "World of dreams" to be as real as New York. I for one, dream about the characters as if I knew them as family. The books will carry the reader away in a fashion that possibly only a higher power could. There is depth, originality, feeling, compassion all rolled into something beyond tangibility. The emotions are impossible to grasp and even harder to explain. Those who have read other passionate fantasy books will find themselves astounded time and time again. A burning fever that will not go out rages in the heart, the soul, the mind, and the dreams of those who cross the bridge. Bliss can already be reached..

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Summary: Well Written Robert Jordan!
Review: Robert Jordan writes an excellent fantasy. His first few books of Wheel of Time were of high quality in both characters and plot development. However he stretched this series out far too long. The plot and characters have become quite predictable, which usually proves deadly for a fantasy series. In my estimation , Jordan ranks very high on the quality author list, but still a couple of steps below Tolkein who is still the benchmark for all epic fantasy work

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Summary: The Wheel of Time is the best fantasy series out there.
Review: Robert Jordan has successfully created a realistic world of magic, a feat which very few fantasy authors accomplish. His writing style is simple, making the complicated story easier to understand. The series has only one flaw that I can see: Once you read it, you can't wait to get your hands on the next book, which may very well not be out for a year. Don't just read the series once. I've read it three times, and am reading it again, and I'm still picking up things that I missed the first three times. In these books, little details have a way of becoming very important.